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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






2. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






3. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






4. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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5. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






6. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






7. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






8. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






9. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






10. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






11. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






12. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






13. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






15. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






16. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






17. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






18. Open syllable






19. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






20. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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21. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






22. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






23. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






24. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






25. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






26. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






27. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






28. Academic Language Therapy Association






29. Closed syllable






30. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






31. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






32. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






34. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






35. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






36. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






37. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






38. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






39. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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40. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






41. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






42. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






43. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






44. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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45. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






46. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






47. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






48. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






49. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo